Contribution of potential evaporation forecasts to  10-day streamflow forecast skill for the Rhine River

van Osnabrugge, Bart; Uijlenhoet, Remko; Weerts, Albrecht

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1453-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1453-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1453-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 3

Research article

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14 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 14 Mar 2019

Contribution of potential evaporation forecasts to 10-day streamflow forecast skill for the Rhine River

Bart van Osnabrugge, Remko Uijlenhoet, and Albrecht Weerts

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RC1: 'Nothing to add to this "simple and straightforward investigation with an operational forecasting practice perspective"', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer 1', Bart van Osnabrugge, 16 Nov 2018
AC1: 'Reply to reviewer 1', Bart van Osnabrugge, 16 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Interesting topic but some additional technical issues need to be considered', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer 2', Bart van Osnabrugge, 08 Jan 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (24 Jan 2019) by Alexander Gelfan

AR by Bart van Osnabrugge on behalf of the Authors (08 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (24 Feb 2019) by Alexander Gelfan

AR by Bart van Osnabrugge on behalf of the Authors (26 Feb 2019)

Short summary

A correct estimate of the amount of future precipitation is the most important factor in making a good streamflow forecast, but evaporation is also an important component that determines the discharge of a river. However, in this study for the Rhine River we found that evaporation forecasts only give an almost negligible improvement compared to methods that use statistical information on climatology for a 10-day streamflow forecast. This is important to guide research on low flow forecasts.